The field class took place in mid-April and saw 46 Year 2 BA Geographers and 3 staff heading north, braving a week of intermittent rain and gales in order to put into practise a variety of research skills acquired over the last year and a half of study.

These included interviewing a Member of the Scottish Parliament; surveying any member of the public unable to run away fast enough; participant observation of the ‘local’ (tourist?) cuisine; and experiencing an Edinburgh bus tour in the name of ethnography.

‘A Mars a Day’? Sampling the ‘local’ cuisine

The final part of the field class focussed on data analysis, ranging from traditional graphs and tables of survey results through to the construction of ‘word clouds’ based on free-text and interview responses: